Modern Legal Drafting: A Guide to Using Clearer Language (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society)

This book reveals how and why traditional legal language has developed some of the peculiar characteristics that sometimes make legal documents inaccessible to users. It examines recent reforms in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and North America, and provides a step-by-step guide to drafting in a modern style. Readers of the book will be able to make their writing clearer and their legal documents more useful to clients and colleagues.

Castle, Richard

Butt, Peter

Literature & Fiction

Cambridge University Press

In the second edition of this highly regarded text, the authors show how and why traditional legal language has developed the peculiar characteristics that make legal documents inaccessible to the end users. Incorporating recent research and case law, the book provides a critical examination of case law and the rules of interpretation. Detailed case studies illustrate how obtuse or outdated words, phrases and concepts can be rewritten, reworked or removed altogether. Particularly useful is the step-by-step guide to drafting in the modern style, using examples from four types of common legal documents: leases, company constitutions, wills and conveyances. Readers will gain an appreciation of the historical influences on drafting practice and the use of legal terminology. They will learn about the current moves to reform legal language, and receive clear instruction on how to make their writing clearer and their legal documents more useful.

This book reveals how and why traditional legal language has developed some of the peculiar characteristics that sometimes make legal documents inaccessible to users. It examines recent reforms in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and North America, and provides a step-by-step guide to drafting in a modern style. Readers of the book will be able to make their writing clearer and their legal documents more useful to clients and colleagues.

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Nikki Heat and Jameson Rook team up again to investigate their coldest killer yet, in Richard Castle's exciting follow-up to the number one New York Times bestseller Heat Rises. . NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat gets more mystery than she imagined when she arrives at her latest crime scene. The body of an unidentified woman has been found stabbed to death and stuffed inside a suitcase left sitting in a freezer truck. A startling enough death--but an even bigger shock comes when this new homicide surprisingly connects to the unsolved murder of Detective Heat's own mother. Killed gruesomely, the Jane Doe on ice launches Heat on a dangerous and emotional investigation, rekindling the cold case that has haunted her since she was nineteen. Paired once again with her romantic and investigative partner, top journalist Jameson Rook, Heat works to solve the mystery of the body in the suitcase while she also digs into unexplored areas of her mother's background--areas Nikki has been afraid to confront before, but now must.

Frozen Heat (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Turtleback Books

Deadly Heat (Nikki Heat) (Turtleback School & Library Edition)

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. In New York Times Bestselling author Richard Castle's newest novel, an illegal immigrant falls from the sky and NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat's investigation into his death quickly captures the imagination of her boyfriend the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Jameson Rook. When he decides to work the case with Heat as his next big story, Nikki is at first happy to have him ride along. Yes, she must endure Rook's usual wild conspiracy speculations and adolescent wisecracks, but after reuniting following his recent assignment abroad, she's glad for the entertainment, the chance to bounce ideas, and just to be close to him again and feel the old spark rekindle. But when Rook's inquiry concludes that Detective Heat has arrested the wrong man for the murder, everything changes. Balancing her high stakes job with a complicated romance has been a challenge ever since Nikki fell for the famous reporter. Now, her relationship lurches from mere complexity into sharp conflict over the most high-risk case of her career. Set against the raging force of Hurricane Sandy as it pounds New York, Heat battles an ambitious powerbroker, fights a platoon of urban mercenaries, and clashes with the man she loves. Detective Heat knows her job is to solve murders. She just worries that solving this one will be the death of her relationship.

Raging Heat (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Turtleback

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. In New York Times Bestselling author Richard Castle's newest novel, an illegal immigrant falls from the sky and NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat's investigation into his death quickly captures the imagination of her boyfriend the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Jameson Rook. When he decides to work the case with Heat as his next big story, Nikki is at first happy to have him ride along. Yes, she must endure Rook's usual wild conspiracy speculations and adolescent wisecracks, but after reuniting following his recent assignment abroad, she's glad for the entertainment, the chance to bounce ideas, and just to be close to him again and feel the old spark rekindle. But when Rook's inquiry concludes that Detective Heat has arrested the wrong man for the murder, everything changes. Balancing her high stakes job with a complicated romance has been a challenge ever since Nikki fell for the famous reporter. Now, her relationship lurches from mere complexity into sharp conflict over the most high-risk case of her career. Set against the raging force of Hurricane Sandy as it pounds New York, Heat battles an ambitious powerbroker, fights a platoon of urban mercenaries, and clashes with the man she loves. Detective Heat knows her job is to solve murders. She just worries that solving this one will be the death of her relationship.

Genre Fiction

Castle's hero, Derrick Storm, comes to life in the pages of this all-new graphic novel! This "adaptation" of Derrick Storm's first novel takes our hero from the gritty world of the private eye all the way to the globe-hopping intrigue of the CIA. Eisner Award-winning Marvel writer Brian Michael Bendis and red-hot Osborn writer Kelly Sue DeConnick worked closely with Castle creator Andrew Marlowe to create the one thing millions of Castle fans have been asking for: their first real Derrick Storm adventure - a wall-to-wall, gritty, witty, globe-hopping detective thrill ride for fans of the hit TV show starring Nathan Fillion and Stana Katic, as well as fans of damn good comic books.

Castle: Richard Castle's Deadly Storm

Comics & Graphic Novels

Bendis, Brian Michael

DeConnick, Kelly Sue

Graphic Novels

Marvel Enterprises

The Derrick Storm adaptations continue in an all-new miniseries based on the hit ABC show Castle! Derrick Storm's gruesome discovery winds up drawing him into an international spectacle. Who is The Fear? What does he want with Derrick? And why is Derrick's father next on his hit list? As the international situation in New York continues to degrade, Derrick Storm reaches out to the one person who may be able to help him: his former handler, Clara Strike. But even if she responds, will she be with him or against him? Don't miss the espionage thriller has comic book and Castle fans raving! COLLECTING: Castle: A Calm Before Storm 1-5

Castle: A Calm Before Storm

DAVID,Peter

Naked Heat (Nikki Heat)

“Nikki Heat is at it again. She comes upon the dead body of a famous journalist, only to find her nemesis, Rook, is already at the crime scene having found the body first. From here, the case just keeps getting better. This is Castle at his best.” --Stephen J. Cannell, New York Times bestselling author When New York’s most vicious gossip columnist, Cassidy Towne, is found dead, Heat uncovers a gallery of high-profile suspects, all with compelling motives for killing the most feared muckraker in Manhattan. But Heat’s murder investigation is complicated by her surprise reunion with superstar magazine journalist Jameson Rook. In the wake of their recent breakup, Nikki would rather not deal with their raw emotional baggage. But the handsome, wise-cracking writer’s personal involvement in the case forces her to team up with Rook anyway. The residue of their unresolved romantic conflict and crackling sexual tension fills the air as Heat and Rook embark on the search for a killer among celebrities and mobsters, singers and hookers, pro athletes and shamed politicians. This new, explosive case brings on the heat in the glittery world of secrets, cover-ups, and scandals.

United States

Hyperion

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Modern Legal Drafting: A Guide to Using Clearer Language (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society)

Modern Legal Drafting: A Guide to Using Clearer Language (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society)

Modern Legal Drafting: A Guide to Using Clearer Language (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society)

Frozen Heat (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Deadly Heat (Nikki Heat) (Turtleback School & Library Edition)

Raging Heat (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Raging Heat (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Castle: Richard Castle's Deadly Storm

Castle: A Calm Before Storm

Naked Heat (Nikki Heat)